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[ 2BFWIK2-1 ] IK Special Topics in Finance 1
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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
1,5 ECTS D - Diploma programme Business Administration Christoph Schmidinger 1 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Original study plan Diploma programme (*)Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2009W
Objectives
  • In depth look at the content of the first main courses.
  • Understanding how security markets function
  • Learning more about instruments used for the technical analysis of securities analysis in cases of trading decisions
  • Increasing the understanding of a general trading environment by introducing the microstructure of securities trading, trading strategies and trading risks.
Subject The course explores the base concepts of securities trading, particularly an overview of individual types of securities highlighting the structure of securities exchange. The main section focuses on trading stocks using technical analysis. Subsequently the course reviews specifics of stock trading and risk management.

  • Intro/review of financial instruments tradable securities.
    • Money market instruments
    • Bonds
    • Stocks
    • Indices
    • Derivative Instruments
  • Securities markets
    • Floor trading / Elektronischer Handel (Limit Orderbücher) / Over the counter trade
    • Trading participants
    • Clearing & Regulation
  • Technical securities analysis
    • Dow theory & charting
    • Technical indicators
    • Trading Systems
  • Trading
    • Order Types
    • Trading Costs
    • Trading Strategies
    • Track Keeping
  • Risk Management
    • Risikotypen
    • Money Management
    • Riskomanagement
Criteria for evaluation 20% Homework Assignments: Technical Analysis

20% Homework Assignments: Trading & Track Keeping

20% Presentation Stock Exchange/academic publication (incl. peer reviews)

40% Test

Methods Lecture - homework assignments & group presentations
Language German
Study material Bodie / Kane / Marcus (2004): Bodie, Z., Kane, A., Marcus; A.: Essentials of investments, 5th Edition, MCGraw-Hill/Irvin, New York, 2004
Harris (2003): Harris, L.: Trading and exchanges – Market microstructure for practitioners, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003
Steiner / Bruns (2007): Steiner, M., Bruns, C.: Wertpapiermanagement, 9. Aufl., Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart, 2007
Murphy (2007): Murphy, J.: Technische Analyse der Finanzmärkte, 4. Aufl., FinanzBuch Verlag, München, 2007
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 40
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority